Junior Legal Associate – Venture Transactions & Legal Operations

We're hiring: Junior Legal Associate – Venture Transactions & Legal Operations  6-month internship with growth opportunity – Milan 

BE-COME is a professional services firm working at the intersection of venture capital, startups, and impact investing. With 20+ years of specialized experience, we help investors, founders, and legal teams get things done—practically, precisely, and without corporate nonsense.

We're now looking for a Junior Legal Associate who finds genuine satisfaction in getting things right. Not roughly right. Actually right—structured, consistent, and traceable from first draft to final closing binder.

About the role

This is not a deal-making or negotiation role. This is for someone who understands that legal operations and investment transactions run on precision, coordination, and follow-through—and who finds deep satisfaction in being the person everything can be counted on.

You'll be learning by doing, with direct exposure to real deals from day one. That means working inside structured processes, under close guidance, with progressively more ownership as you grow. You'll handle documents that need to be exactly right, support coordination across multiple moving parts, and develop a solid understanding of how venture transactions actually work end to end.

If you like knowing what good looks like—and then working hard to deliver it—you'll thrive here.

What you'll do

You won't be thrown in the deep end alone. Each of these areas will be introduced progressively, with support from senior team members:

Legal Operations (primary focus)

• Draft and revise minutes of Board meetings and Shareholders' meetings, starting from templates and standard structures
• Support the review and proofreading of legal documents (SHA, SPA, SAFE, corporate bylaws, powers of attorney)
• Assist with closing and post-closing coordination (checklists, agendas, filings)
• Manage signature collection workflows (DocuSign, Dropbox Sign)
• Assemble legal bibles and maintain organized digital archives
• Support legal due diligence activities and company register updates
• Learn to use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT) to optimize and systematize legal tasks

Project Management & Transaction Coordination (supporting role)

• Help coordinate investment projects from initiation through closing, supporting communication between stakeholders
• Assist in tracking project milestones and flagging timeline risks across concurrent transactions
• Contribute to the preparation of status reports for internal teams and clients
• Support the management of investor pipelines and outreach campaigns for client startups

What we're looking for

• 1–3 years of experience in corporate law, M&A/VC teams, in-house legal, project coordination, or notary/legal back office
• A methodical, structured approach to work—you follow through, you close loops, you don't leave things half done
• Strong command of facts and details: you catch what others miss, and errors bother you
• Ability to support multiple workstreams simultaneously without losing quality or missing deadlines
• Excellent written Italian and solid understanding of legal English
• Comfort working within defined procedures and clear guidelines—and the discipline to apply them consistently
• Passion for startups, venture capital, and the mechanics of private markets
• Proficiency with digital tools (Word, Excel, GDrive, DocuSign)
• Bonus: any experience using generative AI to systematize or improve legal and operational workflows

You might be a strong fit if you...

• Take pride in doing things the right way, not just the fast way
• Get quietly frustrated when processes are sloppy, timelines slip, or documentation is incomplete
• Prefer clear priorities over open-ended ambiguity
• Naturally build structure around complex, multi-party situations
• Learn best by getting your hands on real work, not by reading about it
• Want your reliability and hard work to actually be seen and valued

What we offer

• 6-month paid internship with the goal of a fast-track permanent role
• Hands-on learning in real deals and legal operations—you'll learn by doing, not shadowing
• A structured environment with clear ownership and defined processes
• Hybrid setup with a team that respects execution discipline
• High autonomy within a high-trust framework—your contributions are visible and recognized
• No politics, no micromanagement, no corporate noise

How to apply

Send your CV and a short example of a time when your attention to detail, follow-through, or systematic approach made a real difference in a legal, corporate, or project coordination task—even better if it involved tight deadlines, multiple stakeholders, or a process you helped make more reliable.

We don't care about titles. We care about how you work.

It's always time to BE-COME.